Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Anand Buddhdev <arb@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:52:03PM +0200, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

Doesn't anyone know the answer to this?

> I'm running Suse 7.3 sparc. I noticed this message in my /var/log/messages today:
> 
> Jun 21 12:45:19 dali PAM-unix2[2191]: auth: Unknown option: shadow
> 
> My /etc/pam.d/pop3 is configured as follows:
> 
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_unix.so shadow nullok
> account    required     /lib/security/pam_unix.so
> session    required     /lib/security/pam_unix.so
> 
> According to the documentation, pam_unix.so understands the "shadow" option. However, I also
> notice this:
> 
> dali:~ # ls -li /lib/security/pam_unix.so /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
>  892956 -rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        50803 Feb 27 20:05 /lib/security/pam_unix.so
>  892956 -rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        50803 Feb 27 20:05 /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
> 
> So pam_unix and pam_unix2 are the same. I read in the documentation
> that pam_unix2 is for handling NIS, and it doesn't know the "shadow"
> option. But why have the been linked as one? What if I'm not using NIS?

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Anand Buddhdev
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